Chapter 10-Sectionalism and the coming of Civil War

Question 1

What were the two types of Whigs?

Answer 1

Conscience Whigs

Cotton Whigs

Question 2

What issue would destroy the Whig political party?

Answer 2

Slavery

Question 3

The Anti-slavery Whig party was called ___.

Answer 3

Conscience Whigs

Question 4

The Pro-slavery Whig party was called

Answer 4

Cotton Whigs

Question 5

Who was the hero of the Mexico War and the standard bearer for the Whig Party?

Answer 5

Zachary Taylor

Question 6

The Free Soil hero who called for no expansion of slavery in the Mexican Cession was ____.

Answer 6

David Wilmot

Question 7

The Anti-immigrant, anti-catholic political party of the 1840s was called ____.

Answer 7

The American Party or Know Nothings

Question 8

Which new political party emerged in the mid-1850s that opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories.

Answer 8

Republican Party

Question 9

the Gold Rush caused an huge American increase in population in ______.

Answer 9

California

Question 10

By 1850, California applied to become a ____.

Answer 10

free state

Question 11

List four parts of the Compromise of 1850.

Answer 11

California would become a free state
Slave trade banned in Washington D.C.
New Mexico Territory will use popular sovereignty on slave issue in future statehood.
Fugitive Slave Law

Question 12

Which part of Congress was equal between Free and Slave states until 1850?

Answer 12

US Senate

Question 13

Who was the most important compromiser fro the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 13

Henry Clay

Question 14

The Fugitive Slave Act led to an increase in activity of the ____.

Answer 14

Underground Railroad

Question 15

List three people who were conductors of the Underground Railroad

Answer 15

Levy Coffin
Quakers
Harriet Tubman

Question 16

The ____ purchase was to build a transcontinental railroad along a southern route.

Answer 16

Gadsden Purchase

Question 17

the route for the Transcontinental railroad that would begin in Chicago and head west through the middle portion of the country was following the ____ route.

Answer 17

Emigrant Route.

Question 18

List the three sections of the emerging United States in the 1850s?

Answer 18

North
South
West

Question 19

List two important politicians who embraced Popular Sovereignty on the slavery issue.

Answer 19

Lewis Cass

Stephen Douglas

Question 20

_____ destroyed the Compromise of 1820.

Answer 20

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 21

____ gave a famous speech about The Crime against Kansas.

Answer 21

Charles Sumner

Question 22

_____ beats Charles Sumner with a cane because of the insulting remarks about southern slave owners.

Answer 22

Andrew Butler

Question 23

List the two groups fighting over slavery in Kansas.

Answer 23

Border Ruffians v. Jayhawkers

Question 24

_____ would allow slavery to exist anywhere no matter what Congress said.

Answer 24

Dred Scott Decision

Question 25

Stephen Douglas' _____ angers southerners and a sense of distrust by northerners.

Answer 25

Freeport Doctrine

Question 26

What in essence said that slavery cannot exist where law enforcers will not protect the instutution

Answer 26

Freeport Doctrine

Question 27

List two places where John Brown used terrorism against slave owners.

Answer 27

Potawatomie, Kan. | Harper's Ferry, Va.

Question 28

What book showed the evils of slavery?

Answer 28

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 29

To ____ means to officially quit the Union.

Answer 29

Secede

Question 30

President ____ wanted to appease the south to try to stop secession in 1860.

Answer 30

President James Buchanan

Question 31

List the presidential candidates in 1860.

Answer 31

Lincoln, Republican Party Breckinridge, southern Democratic Party John Bell, Constitutional Union Party Stephen Douglas, northern Democratic Party

Question 32

Define Insurrection

Answer 32

Rebellion

Question 33

The _____ compromise was to constitutionally safeguard slavery in an attempt keep the Union from breaking apart.

Answer 33

Crittenden Compromise

Question 34

List the first capital of the Confederacy.

Answer 34

Montgomery, Ala.

Question 35

List the second capital of the Confederacy fro most of the Civil War.

Answer 35

Richmond, Va.

Question 36

Who became the Confederate President?

Answer 36

Jefferson Davis

Question 37

The Confederate Constitution was similar to the US Constitution ____ and _____ was protected.

Answer 37

Slavery and State Sovereignty

Question 38

Fort ____ was federal property that must be protected but was bombed by Confederate forces.

Answer 38

Fort Sumter

Question 39

_____ called for volunteers to put down the rebellion in southern states

Answer 39

Abraham Lincoln

Question 40

Following the attack on Fort Sumter, the ____ secedes from the Union.

Answer 40

Upper South of Va., NC, Tenn., and Arkansas.